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Thinking along with Butler: some points about the conference “Vulnerability and Resistance Revisited.” Judith Butler visited our national university (UNAM) to present the conference “Vulnerability and Resistance Revisited” at the impressive Nezahualcóyotl auditorium, where she offered an outlook of her corpus of work around these notions. Several of her texts have accompanied me in my classes and writings throughout my professional life. I’m here offering you a text with some of the points that, personally, were exciting to listen on the flesh, from one of the most prolific and outstanding contemporary philosophers of our time.

Our cities have become key arenas in a primarily market-driven globalization process, a process that primarily unfolds in circumstances and at the mercy of protagonists with little or nothing to do with planning and design. The sweeping decisions of multinational companies, individual consumer preferences, ecological disasters, international politics, cultural differences, and other phenomena associated with globalization render very unrealistic the idea that collective action or even design might be able to steer urban development. Cities are widely regarded as “non-planable” entities that can be observed but only barely influenced, let alone designed. Both an urban politics perspective and design as an intentional and political practice are menaced not only by neoliberal and neoconservative forces but also by the “post-planning” approach […]

The aim of these pages is to provide a single point of access to research completed at MA and PhD level on the work on contemporary women artists and feminist art deposited in a national archive or University repository. This information is currently very hard to find beyond national borders. This was the rational for making an international resource available in this area and on this subject. This section of the site is the result of a research project at Middlesex University conducted by Frances Hatherley and Katy Deepwell from Jan-May 2015. We hope this resource will help all researchers build on the work of these scholars and help students identify new projects and ideas.   Although we have located […]

The pictorial work of Lilia Carrillo (1930-1974), as that of other artists of his generation, revolutionizes the pictorial language in Mexico, it is extracted of the confinement in the speech stereotyped of “the Mexican thing” produced by the authors of the muralismo and protagonists of so called by ” Mexican school of painting “, during the first half of the 20th century. The present test is busy with making see, from three Lilia Carrillo’s pictorial works, a plot of bridges between the images and the words, since both constitute a system of communication that interlaces. On having used so many parentheses between cutting and joining the words, which give body to this test, a (des) realizes visual construction of the […]

The feminism has been the first political moment of Historical critique to the family and to the company. Carla Lonzi

The web, internet, is a huge space where converge information and communication, that is interactive and open to cooperation among peers, whom connect thanks to the expressed interests and personal relations given inside this multiple virtual communicating vessels that conform the net. The relations formed this way permit to widen the interaction horizons in a way never believed before. The geographic or physical isolation is abolished resulting in a new global social fabric that becomes tighter every day, though it has also a liquid quality. This means that the will offers permanence and navigation mobility widens or reduces the action fields. Peers meeting, (individuals with similar interests converging in a specific spot in this digital ocean), usually results in an […]

The title of her show, energetic field refers to the creative energy that reflects her self inquiry and reflection. Susana Serra opens an exhibit of recent works at the juan martin gallery, dickens 33b, polanco, next saturday march 1st from 12-3pm. The title of her show, energetic field refers to the creative energy that reflects her self inquiry and reflection.  The poet Elsa Cross in her essay on the exhibit says: “The impulse of the creative energy is the same whether it produces a galaxy, a painting or a symphony” and goes on to say “I find that the series of the energetic field is profoundly musical. There are varied visual rythms, intervals of silence and resounding swarms, rings that […]

Hans Ulrich Obrist: The last time we met was with Rem Koolhaas in 2001, and we spoke about what could be called your “city projects.” What are you working on related to this subject at the moment? Antonio Negri: I can start by saying that while discussing the concept of the multitude, Michael Hardt and I found ourselves facing the question of the city, which we brought up as part of the question of the territorialization of the multitude, the space in which the multitude deploys itself. To be honest, I think that while a number of problems started to clear up after we wrote Multitude, others remained in the shadow, like this fundamental question of space. For example, we are […]